Thorns & Thistles

((( Men and Masculinity by Mark Driscoll

When the man sins against God, He doesn't just curse the man, He curses the ground under the man. That means that everything under the mans dominion now starts to fight against him. There are now thorns and thistles; man has a lot of work to do. The ground being cursed is God's grace. When the man is working his ground (yard, house, family, finances, job, etc) it always fights against him. Why did God curse everything under the man? Because He *loves* the man! When the man tries to cultivate his ground, and it all fights against him, doesn't that teach him about God? The ground is doing to the man, what the man is doing to God. Man rebels against God. So the man starts to understand the gospel while he's working.